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Random Observations on Art, Photography, and the Creative Process. These talks focus on the creative process in fine art photography. LensWork editor Brooks Jensen side-steps techno-talk and artspeak to offer a stimulating mix of ideas, experience, and observations from his 50 years as a fine art photographer, writer, and publisher. Topics include a wide range of subjects from finding subject matter to presenting your work, and building an audience. Included in this RSS Feed are the LensWork ...
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HT2127 - Tiny Prints I remember visiting the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1980s and seeing on display a collection of tiny prints in very large frames. As I recall, they were 35mm contact prints presented and framed in 16x20 matboard. The exhibition was unusual, but watching people view these prints was especially interesting. I noticed that eve…
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HT2126 - About Backgrounds, Sort Of We need a new word other than "background" to describe what I want to discuss in today's commentary. We normally think of the background of a photograph as that part that's not the subject but is still inside the borders of the image. But every photograph has another background that is either the mat board of a f…
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HT2125 - The Stunning Image Has Been Replaced
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HT2125 - The Stunning Image Has Been Replaced If we look back at the history of photography and concentrate on what we now call "fine art photograph," we see that a great deal of the success of a photograph was its technological accomplishment. We'd look at a print and say, "Wowee, how did they do that?" In my youth, that question launched a pursui…
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HT2124 - Montage In 2016, we launched the idea of six-image projects we called Seeing in SIXES. We presented them in book format with one image per page in a six-page sequence. A variation of that idea has intrigued me of late. Why not place six images into a montage layout on a single sheet of paper?…
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HT2123 - Over and Over and Over Leads to Boredom
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HT2123 - Over and Over and Over Leads to Boredom We all appreciate an amazing and wonderful photograph. We strive to produce them and collect them. If we are lucky and productive, we may someday produce a book of our very best. Here is my odd observation about a book filled with all breathtaking images: I get bored very quickly with winner after wi…
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LW1434 - What Kind of Photographer Are You
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LW1434 - What Kind of Photographer Are You So much of what we do is a function of how we define ourselves. What kind of photographer are you? How you answer that question may limit your creative vision in ways you do not intend. All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are available to members of LensWork Online. 30-day Trial Memberships are onl…
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HT2122 - A Picture OF, or a Picture ABOUT
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HT2122 - A Picture OF, or a Picture ABOUT From time to time, someone will ask me a definition for the term "fine art photography." It's a difficult question. I often find it useful, however, to divide the images I see into pictures that are of something and pictures that are about something. The ones about something seem to my mind to be closer to …
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HT2121 - Failure to Launch From time to time someone will recommend a book, a song, an artist, a singer who touches their soul deeply. I take a look, read a couple of chapters, listen to a song or two — and totally fail to connect with the recommended art. I don't know how to think about this. Am I insensitive? Am I resistant? Should I try harder? …
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LW1331 - Expanding the Moment - Sequences and Grids
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This RSS Feed to be Deprecated As of January 2023, this RSS feed will be phased out and then retired in mid-February 2023. Please redired your RSS feed to the following URL. http://www.lenswork.com/podcast.xml LW1331 - Expanding the Moment - Sequences and Grids Still photography is wonderful, but the single image is not the only option. Sequences a…
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